After yesterday’s post which ended up talking about football in Scotland , I was rather amused to find this item in today’s Australian.
It seems that the Scots are now claiming that they turned the ‘barbaric’ form of football into into a ‘real’ game.
For those who don’t know – what the UK call football is known as soccer in Oz.
Boadicea's Chariot 
We Scots have come up with awhole lot of useful things, not just football and golf and whisky.
I don’t believe a word of it, Boadicea! According to this article it was Eton College, not the Scots.
Boadicea: Known as Soccer here also (and until quite recently considered a game for girls) to differentiate it from Football (the real game). The few professional soccer games I have seen recently leads me to conclude it still may be, although the majority of females of my acquaintance would probably whinge less and score more.
Eton playing soccer? Oh my dear Araminta, surely not! That nasty, rough, common game!
When you say “Football (the real game), Low Wattage, do you mean that confused noise known as American football where they wear gloves and padding?
Sheona.
That’s probably why they took up the rather gentler game of rugby instead. 😉
A shame those in charge of history choose to lie to the public 😦
It was “us” … South Americans who invented all the ball games … however , using a human head as a ball did not seem to please everybody (the softies) so a new ball made out of animal skin was created.
A SHAME … kicking real heads gives one a certain “revolutionary” feeling (for araminta)
🙂
Even if the Scots did invent soccer, which seems extremely unlikely, they forgot how to play it some time ago! 🙂